Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- Leadership is an action, not a position.
- Leadership is influence.John C. MaxwellCommonly attributed
- Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
- Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.
- Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
- Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
- Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.
- Leadership is not optional; it is essential.Charles R. SwindollSourced
- Leadership is rooted not in power and authority, but in service and wisdom.
- Leadership is something that you must invite yourself into; it will never thrust itself upon you.
- Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.
- Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
- Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.Warren BennisCommonly attributed
- Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.
- Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others
- Let God turn fear into faith. Instead of becoming a hesitant leader, ask God to make you bold and aggressive.
- Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- Life changes for the better when we realize that we don’t have to know everything and we don’t have to pretend that we do.
- Listen if you want to be heard.
- Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.
- Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
- Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.
- Making hard trade-offs is where leadership is tested.Greg McKeownCommonly attributed
- Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Warren BennisSourced
- Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
- Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
- Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.Warren BennisSourced
- Men are won, not so much by being blamed, as by being encompassed with love.
- Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
- Mind is the great lever of all things.
- Minorities lead and save the world, and the world knows them not till long afterwards.
- Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow.
- Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
- Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.